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A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the…
A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the question about his righteousness active, passive : and the imputation thereof. Being an answer to a dialogue entitled The meritorious price of redemption, justification, &c. / By John Norton teacher of the church at Ipswich in New-England. Who was appointed to draw up this answer by the general court.A discussion of that great point in divinity, the sufferings of Christ; and the question about his righteousnesse active, passive : and the imputation thereof. Being an answer to a dialogue intituled The meritorious price of redemption, justification, &c. / By John Norton teacher of the church at Ipswich in New-England. Who was appointed to draw up this answer by the generall court.
London: printed by A.M. for Geo. Calvert, 1653
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Part 1 › Chapter 6: The Vindication of Exod. 20.10. Lev. 1.4. & 4.29. Lev. 8.14. & 16.20, 21.
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Dialogu If you make the act of laying on of hands on the sin-offering, to signify Gods laying our sins upon Christ by imputation, then the same act of laying on of hands with confession of sins upon the Scape-goat must also signify that God did impute our sin to Christ as well after he was escaped from death by his resurrection and ascension, as when he made his oblation here upon earth, and thus by this doctrine Christ is gone as a guilty sinner into heaven.
Dialogu If you make the act of laying on of hands on the sin-offering, to signifie Gods laying our sins upon Christ by imputation, then the same act of laying on of hands with confession of sins upon the Scape-goat must also signifie that God did impute our sin to Christ as well after he was escaped from death by his resurrection and ascention, as when he made his oblation here upon earth, and thus by this doctrine Christ is gone as a guilty sinner into heaven.
We have already said that we make not this act a type of Gods laying sin upon Christ: the live-goat and the scape-goat were both types of Christ, that of him dying, this of him delivered from death: sin was laid upon the scape goat not after but before ⟨p. 52⟩its escape; and signifieth that notwithstanding his bearing of sin typified by both goats, yet after he had suffered, which was typified by the killed goat, he then should be delivered from those sufferings which were typified by the scapegoat: and thus by the doctrine of the Scapegoat Christ is risen again, ascended, and sits at the right hand of God the Father acquitted from all sin.
Dialogu. But the Hebrew Doctors did not understand this imposition of hands with confession of sins of Gods imputation: but they understood it to be a typical sign of the faith of dependence upon Christs sacrifice of Atonement; and so much the prayer of the High-Priest imports. See Ainsworth